All governments from developing countries confront the challenge of designing coherent policies that can simultaneously accelerate growth, reduce poverty and inequality, preserve and improve the environment, and help adapt/mitigate to climate change. To successfully achieve these objectives, countries need both i) sound institutional arrangements for policy integration; and ii) quantitative analytical capacities to assess policy options. The ultimate aim is to foster a cohesive policy…
Enhancing policy coherence for the SDGs through integrated assessments and institutional strengthening
Recipients: Ethiopia, Cameroon, Senegal
Partners: ECA, UNDP, IAEA, AAPAM, CAFRAD
Status: Closed
Strengthening capacity of National Tax Administrations And Ministries of Finance in developing countries to protect and broaden their tax base for financing of sustainable development
Recipients: Tanzania, Angola, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Paraguay
Partners: ECLAC
Status: Closed
Strengthening capacity of developing countries to achieve sustainable agriculture through the transfer of Juncao Technology and analysing and disseminating best practices and lessons learned for alleviating poverty, and promoting productive employment
Despite progress in reducing both the number of undernourished persons and the prevalence of undernourishment in recent decades, people living in rural areas have been left behind, with many continuing to face grinding poverty and hunger. In particular, smallholder farmers in remote and mountainous areas, drought and desertification- affected regions and small island developing states encounter constant challenges for growing crops, putting them at risk of poverty and hunger. The socio-…
Recipients: Madagascar, Tanzania, Central African Republic, China, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea
Partners: National Engineering Research Center of Juncao Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU)
Donors: China
Status: Active
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for Integrated Climate Action for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are key drivers of economic growth and sustainable development in LDCs and SIDS. However, many of these countries face challenges in harnessing the power of STI to drive economic growth and sustainable development in part due to cost constraints, infrastructure deficiencies, geographical insularity, fragmentation and limited knowledge transfer. Addressing these gaps requires efforts at all levels to assist countries to,…
Recipients: Sao Tome and Principe, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau
Partners: DCO, UNESCO, Centre of Ocean Research for Sustainable Development, Cabo Verde, Ocean Science Mindelo Centre, Technical University of the Atlantic
Donors: RB
Status: Active